Mark Wood Electrify Your Strings Spring Concert

05.25.13

Mark Wood, a founding member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, will perform with his electronic strings band, Electrify Your Strings. The group includes his wife, rock vocalist Laura Kaye, and their

The Grand 1894 Opera House presents Blame it on Valentine, Texas

06.15.13 - 06.15.13

Blame it on Valentine, Texas is Jaston Williams' new comedy. The Tuna series that performed for more than two decades— Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas, Red, White and Tuna and Tuna Do

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Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events, including a historic goodbye

By Joel Luks

05.14.13 | 12:10 pm

On tap this week are Hans Graf's last performance as Houston Symphony's music director, a history boat tour, an artsy evening that raises awareness for breast cancer prevention, dance on wa ...

WindSync presents "Homeward Bound"

05.25.13

In WindSync's final concert of the season, the group continues through uncharted territory with original arrangements of music by Piazzola, Bernstein and Ravel. The concert also features percus

Country Playhouse presents Six Degrees of Separation

05.10.13 - 05.25.13

Paul, a young African-American down from Harvard is stabbed in a mugging in Central Park and is taken in by Ouisa and Flan Kittredge, since he is a friend of their children at Harvard. They become

BooTown presents Turtle Turtle

Rudyard's British Pub

06.21.13 - 06.29.13

BooTown's puppet show Turtle Turtle reveals the life of a reclusive reptile. Set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1982, the story begins when a young family brings a new pet tur

Frame Dance Productions presents Ecouter

06.28.13 - 06.29.13

Frame Dance Productions presents three dances created for three original scores by three Houston composers. Charles Halka, Mark Hirsch and Frame Dance's 2013 Music Composition Winner Robert McC

Vitacca Productions & Company presents "Dance Soirée: An Artistic Celebration"

Houston Ballet Center for Dance

05.11.13

The program features artists from the Vitacca Dance Project, Allegro West Academy, Jana Brown's Center Stage and North Harris Performing Arts. Guests will have an opportunity to meet the artist

Don't Miss Events

Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events, including art cars and vampires

By Joel Luks

05.08.13 | 2:39 pm

On tap this week are a hula-themed young professionals fundraiser, a yearly tradition of artful vehicles, a home tour that awakens the spirit of yore and the story of a vampire set to music that th ...

Psophonia Dance Company presents Taking Flight

05.24.13 - 05.25.13

All the works on the program connect in some way to flight — the magic, the struggle and the fall. The idea sprang out of artistic director Sophia Torres' fascination with flight from cre